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Washington tells trading partners to sever ties with Tehran or risk losing access to dollar-based finance, while Iran promises to resist. The United States has broadened its sanctions regime
Jeremy Allaire points to near-total stablecoin dominance in emerging AI-to-AI transaction protocol x402 Circle's chief executive Jeremy Allaire has drawn attention to USDC's near-total contro
The pilot, run under the Monetary Authority of Singapore's BLOOM initiative, tests whether stablecoins can settle payments beyond standard business days. Visa and Nium are testing stablecoin
Arthur Hayes says Scott Bessent is becoming Janet Yellen through Treasury liquidity. Arthur opens “Same Same But Different” with a night at Pacha. Scott, his “Buffalo Bill,” runs into Yellen.
TLDR Treasury added Iran’s digital asset sector to Executive Order 13902 sanctions authority on August 24. A UAE-based broker is accused of moving over $100 million in crypto tied to Iran-lin
TRON WLFI Dispute Escalates As Witkoff Cites $4.4B Tether Freeze Data The TRON WLFI dispute escalated this week after World Liberty Financial co-founder Zach Witkoff publicly countered TRON f
Crypto is regularly used as a payment rail rather than just an asset to hold or trade. Stablecoin payments reached roughly $390 billion in 2025, more than double 2024 levels, for faster, low-
Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong (SCBHK) has begun distributing HKDAP, marking the first time a major bank has offered the regulated, Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin to eligible instituti
Finally, Nigerian regulators are formally embracing crypto as an economic instrument. Yet, the steep price of this legitimacy threatens to strangle the very innovation it seeks to govern. The
Standard Chartered has become the first bank to distribute a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, a milestone that pulls a regulated global lender directly into the HKD stablecoin market and signals
Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 25th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has kicked off MOVE Carnival. This month-long campaign combines zero-fee trading with a range
Standard Chartered is the first bank authorized to distribute HKDAP. HKDAP is Hong Kong’s first regulated HKD-backed stablecoin. The milestone marks another step in Hong Kong’s regulated digi
